The Low Countries. Jaargang 12

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Foundation

 

This twelfth yearbook is published by the Flemish-Netherlands Foundation ‘Stichting Ons Erfdeel’, with the support of the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science (The Hague) and the Flemish Ministry of Culture (Brussels).

The Foundation ‘Stichting Ons Erfdeel’ also publishes the Dutch-language periodical Ons Erfdeel and the French-language periodical Septentrion.

Arts, lettres et culture de Flandre et des Pays-Bas, the bilingual yearbook De Franse Nederlanden - Les Pays-Bas Français and a series of books in several languages covering various aspects of the culture of the Low Countries.

 

The Board of Directors of ‘Stichting Ons Erfdeel’

 

President:

Herman Balthazar

 

Managing Director:

Luc Devoldere

 

Directors:

Greetje van den Bergh

Jan Bosselaers

Marcel Cockaerts

Jan Desmyter

Bert de Graeve

Vaast Leysen

Cecile Maeyaert-Cambien

Aad Nuis

Frits van Oostrom

Adriaan van der Staay

Cees van der Velden

Ludo Verhoeven

 

Honorary President:

Philip Houben

 

Address of the Editorial Board and the Administration

 

‘Stichting Ons Erfdeel’, Murissonstraat 260, 8930 Rekkem, Flanders, Belgium

T +32 56 41 12 01, F +32 56 41 47 07

www.onserfdeel.be, www.onserfdeel.nl

 

Head of Administration:

Bernard Viaene

 

Administrative Secretaries:

Adinda Houttekier / Hans Verhaeghe

 

Aims

 

With The Low Countries, a yearbook founded by Jozef Deleu (Chief Editor from 1993 until 2002), the editors and publisher aim to present to the English-speaking world the culture and society of the Dutch-speaking area which embraces both the Netherlands and also Flanders, the northern part of Belgium.

 

The articles in this yearbook survey the living, contemporary culture of the Low Countries as well as their cultural heritage. In its words and pictures The Low Countries provides information about literature and the arts, but also about broad social and historical developments in Flanders and the Netherlands.

 

The culture of Flanders and the Netherlands is not an isolated phenomenon; its development over the centuries has been one of continuous interaction with the outside world. In consequence the yearbook also pays due attention to the centuriesold continuing cultural interplay between the Low Countries and the world beyond their borders.

 

By drawing attention to the diversity, vitality and international dimension of the culture of Flanders and the Netherlands, The Low Countries hopes to contribute to a lively dialogue between differing cultures.

 

ISSN 0779-5815

ISBN 90-75862-68-7

NUR 600/612

Copyright © 2004 ‘Stichting Ons Erfdeel’

Printed by Die Keure, Bruges, Flanders, Belgium

Design by Luc De Meyer (Die Keure)

 

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced in any form without the prior permission of the copyright holder.

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The Low Countries

 

Cover: Honoré δὈ and Franciska Lambrechts, Sinking Test (2003)

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TLC 12

2004 The Low Countries

ARTS AND SOCIETY IN FLANDERS AND THE NETHERLANDS

Published by the Flemish-Netherlands Foundation Stichting Ons Erfdeel

 

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Editorial Board

 

Chief Editor:

Luc Devoldere

 

Deputy Editors:

Dirk van Assche

Frits Niessen

Reinier Salverda

 

Secretary:

Filip Matthijs

 

Members:

Saskia Bak

Anton Korteweg

Bart van der Straeten

Hans Vanacker

 

Advisory Committee

 

Fred G.H. Bachrach, Twickenham, United Kingdom

E.M. Beekman, Amherst, ma, usa

André Brink, Cape Town, South Africa

Christopher Brown, Oxford, United Kingdom

Bram Buijze, The Hague, The Netherlands

Patricia Carson, Ghent, Belgium

Jan Deloof, Zwevegem, Belgium

Theo D'haen, Leuven, Belgium

Bruce C. Donaldson, Melbourne, Australia

Charles Ford, London, United Kingdom

Amy Golahny, Williamsport, pa, usa

Jaap Harskamp, London, United Kingdom

Adrian van den Hoven, Windsor, Ontario, Canada

Jonathan Israel, Princeton, nj, usa

Frank Ligtvoet, New York, ny, usa

Gitta Luijten, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Martin Mooij, Capelle a / d IJssel, The Netherlands

Arnold J. Pomerans, Colchester, United Kingdom

Ethel Portnoy, The Hague, The Netherlands

Paul R. Sellin, Los Angeles, ca, usa

William Z. Shetter, Bloomington, in, usa

Johan P. Snapper, Berkeley, ca, usa

Kees Snoek, Dordrecht, The Netherlands

Paul Vincent, London, United Kingdom

Leo Vroman, Fort Worth, tx, usa

Rudi Wester, Paris, France

John Willemse, Pretoria, South Africa

Michael J. Wintle, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Manfred Wolf, San Francisco, ca, usa

Joanna Woodall, London, United Kingdom

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Contents

	Stuck in Motion
11	Luc Devoldere
	Foreword
12	Pieter Leroy
	Mobility: Absurdity and Poetry, Economics and Stubbornness
22	Gerard van Westerloo
	The Scrub Pine Syndrome Walking in the Netherlands
30	Pol Hoste
	My Head is a Small Boat to America An Extract from ‘Montréal, Carnet II’
34	Luc Devoldere
	Of Stations Passed
46	Anton Korteweg
	The Netherlands Gets on its Bike
	Ten Cycling Poems by C. Buddingh', Jan Kuijper, Gerrit Komrij, Gerry van der Linden, Kees Ouwens, Ad Zuiderent, Jan Kal, H. van Teylingen, T. van Deel and Robert Anker
58	Marc Dierikx
	A Gleam of Silver Disappearing into the Clouds How Time Stopped Flying for Fokker
65	Erwin Joos
	Impressions of Enforced Mobility On the Waterfront: Eugeen van Mieghem, Harbour Painter
70	Thomas Rosenboom
	If the Future Is a Traveller on his Way... An Extract from ‘The New Man’
74	Filip Matthijs
	In God we Trust...In Cars we Rust

 

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86	Frits Bolkestein
	Dutch Identity in Europe
98	Ethel Portnoy
	How an American Became a Dutch Author
103	David Van Reybrouck
	Urban Wildlife Zoos in the Low Countries
110	Lut Missinne
	‘Why?’ Is Not the Right Question On the Work of Carl Friedman
	Three Columns by Carl Friedman
119	Dana Linssen
	A Chocolate Oscar for Paula van der Oest
127	Herbert van Uffelen
	Speak to Live On the Work of Ivo Michiels
136	Harrison Ryker
	Mosaics of Tones Willem Pijper and his Music
142	Lars Kwakkenbos
	The Sublime, Seized and Frozen with a Click Moments from the Work of Marie-Jo Lafontaine
148	Rita Ingram Givens
	Anna Enquist: Form and Vision; Analysis and Feeling
	Two Extracts and Three Poems by Anna Enquist
158	Johan de Vos
	Like the Music of our Time The Rhythm in the Work of Photographer and Filmmaker Anton Corbijn

 

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164	Din Pieters
	A Museological Dilemma The New Van Abbemuseum
171	Derek Blyth
	The End of Melancholy Mechelen Revisited
180	Frank van der Ploeg
	The Song of the Inner Voice Karel Appel's Serial Versatility
188	Geert Buelens
	A Total Eclipse of the Heart About Dirk van Bastelaere
	An Extract and Three Poems by Dirk van Bastelaere
199	Philip van Praag
	How the Dutch Lost their Innocence
205	Walter P. Simons
	Islands of Difference Beguinages in the Medieval Low Countries
214	Arthur Eyffinger
	The Hague, International Centre of Peace and Justice
224	Tineke Reijnders
	Portrait of the Artist as a Perennial Angry Young Man Gerald van der Kaap, Non-Genre Artist
237	Roland Jooris
	Icons without Religion The Work of Dan van Severen
244	Hans Ibelings
	Cohesion in the City The Architecture and Urban Design of Jo Coenen
248	Gerritjan Deunk
	Oases that Speak for Themselves Gardens by Jacques Wirtz

 

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Chronicle

Architecture

258

Marieke van Rooy

What's to See on the Motorway?

The First Architecture Biennale in Rotterdam

Cultural Policy

260

Luc Devoldere

Making a Case for Multatuli

The Dutch-Flemish Centre for Europe in Brussels

262

Koen Jaspaert

Surinam and the Dutch Language Union

Dance and Theatre

264

Katie Verstockt

From the Banal to the Universal

Alain Platel and Les Ballets C de la B

266

Wim Chielens

Tenderness... on the Rocks

Herman van Veen, Harlequin

History

269

Fred G.H. Bachrach

Ostend Revisited

271

Reinier Salverda

A Legacy of Elegant Scholarship

Professor Ernst Kossmann Remembered

273

Chris Emery

A European Isle

Raoul van Caenegem's ‘History of England’

Language

276

Reinier Salverda

The Other Ninety-Six Languages of the Netherlands

277

Rudi Janssens

The Other Languages of Brussels

Literature

279

Yann Lovelock

Laurels Casting Lustre

J.M. Coetzee's Anthology of Dutch Modernist Poems

281

Koen Broucke

‘I am a stream of words’

ABC (Antwerp World Book Capital) 2004 -XYZ 2005

282

Johan Depoortere

Engineers of the Soul

Writers and Water Management in the Soviet Union

 

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Music

284

Filip Matthijs

Life during God's Break

Pop Music in Flanders

287

Ernst Vermeulen

Peter Schat, Acting and Blundering in Freedom

Science

288

Reinier Salverda

‘The only use of these flowers is to be a delight for the eyes’

Rumphius' Orchids

290

Filip Matthijs

Introducing the World

Abraham Ortelius and his ‘Theatrum orbis terrarum’

Society

292

Hans Vanacker

Sprinting between Kitchen, Children and Podium

The Life and Times of Fanny Blankers-Koen

295

Tom Christiaens

Gazette van Detroit: The Voice of the Flemish in North America for 90 Years

297

Bart Eeckhout

Landscapes of Leisure

Visual Arts

300

Hans Aarsman

A Statue of Woman

Emmy Andriesse, Photographer

302

Lut Missinne

The Aftermath and the Aftermath's Aftermath of Dada in the Low Countries

304

Dirk van Assche

Now (or Never)... Rubens

306

Filip Matthijs

Short Takes

313

Bibliography of selected Dutch-Language

Publications translated into English

(traced November 22, 2002 -November 21, 2003)

318

Contributors

319

Translators